The latest results of the poll.
47.93% (111777 responses): Support India
47.08% (109782): Support China
2.39% (5576): Promote a standoff between the two
Note on the Results: A swarm of robot voters attacked this poll. We repelled most, but a few sneaked through our defenses. One robot came through a server registered to the Kodak company, placing tens of thousands of votes in favor of China. More attacks came from servers registered to the Solomon Corporation, Wright University and Indiana University and others. We've removed their votes and erected further defenses to prevent robots from distorting the tally again. For what some might consider a dry foreign policy question, there is obviously a lot of interest.
Personally, isn't the moral high ground here occupied by trying to prevent another cold war? This isn't the blue team vs. the red team. This is nuclear winter. The end of life on a habitable planet.
For all you non historians, on another topic, Japan's colonial ambitions really got rolling in 1904 with an attack on and the destruction of the Russian fleet at the Batttle of Tsushima in which only two of forty two Russian ships in their battle fleet survived.
In the same period Japan occupied Korea and eventually forbade the Koreans to speak Korean and changed all the Koreans names to Japanese names. A classic case of programmed cultural genocide with one culture subsuming another. Japan by 1910 controlled the whole Korean penninsula. To this day many Koreans have a deep distrust of the Japanese a feeling not offset by the fact that thousands of Koreans living in Japan ( the residue of Korean forced if not slave labor) are "second class citizens".
As Japanese colonial ambitions continued apace Japan took over Manchuria in 1931: Manchuukuo in 1932: Jehol in 1933 subsuming most of Manchuria.
On July 7, 1937 Japan declared all out war on China and by the time America enterred the war in the last days of 1941 China had already been at war with Japan for almost five years. By 1944 Japanese forces occupied something between 35% and 40% of China.
I might add on a personal note that many Chinese still today refer to the Japanese as "the monekey people" and that, at least in the survivors of the war and their children, there are lasting emnities between the Chinese in regards to the Japanese. If the Jews who survived Germany rate a "5" in thier dislike of the Germans I'd rate the Chinese at about a "9" in their dislike of the Japanese.
Just my personal observations.
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